I once had to do a risk assessment for someone working in a sewer, two metres underground, in a tsunami zone, after an earthquake, during a global pandemic. At some point, surely, the question stops being: “What other controls can we add?” And becomes: “Should we even be doing this right now?” That’s the bit risk assessments sometimes miss. We decide the job is happening, then keep piling controls onto it until the paperwork says we’re comfortable. But a risk assessment isn’t

Safety treats everything like a catastrophe. But when every warning is at maximum volume, what happens when something genuinely dangerous turns up?

Cheating is Bad. We all know that. Making shit up to get a score that gets you a golden ticket to anything is definitely cheating. BUT .... and stay with me here ..... If otherwise decent businesses are making shit up to pass your assessment, maybe the problem isn’t entirely them. Maybe the assessment is rewarding the wrong thing. And that reward can literally be the difference between staying in business or not... We all know that every assessment wants hard evidence. No gre